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On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 10:04:14AM -0700, Dimitre Novatchev scripsit: > On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 9:40 AM, Graydon <graydon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Does that give me a way to use the same definition in multiple XPath > > expressions with a definition in one place? Inline functions are > > anonymous, and any "let $localFunction := function...." I'd expect to > > stay stuck in the context of that particular XPath expression -- > > Yes, just have in a separate my.xpath file a map from the names of > the functions to their corresponding function items. > > Then in XSLT read the my.xpath file and define a variable that gets > this evaluated, using the <xsl:evaluate> instruction. > > Exactly as done in the Balisage paper I quated somewhere at the start > of this thread. And a great light dawns about why maps are worth another fundamental type! (Wasn't seeing what they did that you couldn't do with an XML structure.) Thank you; I shall have to try to comprehend that article. -- Graydon
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